You know, his parts.

While the film was produced by Apatow, it was written entirely by Segal, and I have to say he did a good job. Most people may known him by his recent work in How I Met Your Mother, but I started liking him back a few years when the wife and I sat through some of Apatow’s old projects: Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.

Segal plays Peter Bretter, who gets dumped early in the movie by Sarah Marshall, a famous actor who plays in show much like a CSI, alongside William Baldwin, who does a hilarious impersonation of David Caruso’s sunglassed character in CSI: Miami.

Peter tries to get over Sarah by sleeping with every girl he can, but it’s just no good. Even venting to his friend played by Bill Hader doesn’t help. So he decides to go to Hawaii and stay at a hotel that Sarah used to talk about in the past.

Little does he know that she’s there as well, with her new boyfriend Aldous Snow, played hilariously by Russell Brand.

Upon checking in, Peter meets the front desk clerk named Rachel Jansen, played by the stunning Mila Kunis. She gives him a free $6,000 a night room because she feels sorry for him, and perhaps is also a bit attracted to the sad faced Peter.

The rest of the movie is what happens when Peter sees Sarah everywhere, but is trying to get his life in order and to get past her.

I’d rank this up there with Superbad in the Apatow library, a film I totally loved. Sarah Marshall is not just a perverted comedy like Knocked Up and 40-year Old Virgin, but it also has that soft interior that made Superbad so special.

There are some great side performances from Hader, Jonah Hill and especially Paul Rudd. Jack McBryar from 30 Rock, is also hilarious as a husband on his wedding night who obviously hasn’t had much experience before. His wife wants him to do some things that he’s just not comfortable with:

“If God were a city planner, he wouldn’t have put a playground next to a sewage plant.”

Segal has a great face for this movie, looking highly pathetic most of the time. Kunis shines as she helps Peter get over Sarah, and Brand as a British rockstar was one of my favorite characters who had some great lines.

Like I said earlier, this movie is pretty trashy and dirty, with quite a few frontal nude shots of Segal. Amazingly, in a comedy with two pretty darn good looking girls in it, the goofy guy gets more skin time.

Which is probably why it’s so funny.

I didn’t agree with Roeper that it was great enough for a Top 50 comedy list, but it was still hilarious and worth a look.

Mike’s Rating: 7.5 out of 10

So that’s why this past weekend’s episode got me excited for another upcoming Judd Apatow comedy: Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Roeper raved about it, saying that he was almost ready to make room for it in his Top 50 Comedies of all-time!

That’s pretty high praise coming from him. He said this stacks up with all of Apatow’s other classics, like Superbad, Knocked Up and Anchorman. Now, Apatow didn’t write this movie, that was done by Jason Segal, who stars as the guy who gets dumped by Kristen Bell.

Segal hails from one of Apatow’s early projects: Freaks and Geeks, a television series that only lasted one season, but was one of the best TV shows I’ve watched in a long time.

Michael Phillips guest hosted with Roeper and both agreed it’s definitely the funniest movie of the year so far (although I still think In Bruges will be tough to beat).

I was excited about this film when I first saw the trailer, but after the bust that was Drillbit Taylor, I figured Apatow’s success may have run it’s course. But apparently that was only a small speed bump on the way to another hit.

If you haven’t seen much about the film, watch the trailer below, but it’s a RED BAND version, so there are some pretty crude moments that are sort of NSFW.

Let’s run down the list of Apatow television/movies in the past 8 years: Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Anchorman, 40 Year Old Virgin, Talladega Nights, Knocked Up, Superbad and Walk Hard. You also have Drillbit Taylor coming in 2008 and now this new one, Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

That is a seriously awesome list of films.

Besides Apatow, Forgetting Sarah Marshall has two things going for it (for me at least): Kristen Bell and Jason Segal. First off, Kristen Bell is awesome, and while she didn’t shine in Heroes (I blame the writing), her three years on Veronica Mars were superb.

And Jason Segal is from Freaks and Geeks and was also in Undeclared and Knocked Up. You also get another dose of Jonah Hill from Superbad.

At some point, you may ask yourself, “doesn’t it seem lame and tiring to do all these movies with essentially the same revolving group of actors?”

That’s a great question, but I’m not ready to answer “yes” yet. I still love all these guys. And now he adds Kristen Bell into the mix.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the tale of a guy who gets dumped by his girlfriend and travels to Hawaii to get over it. Little does he know, she’s there too and with her new boyfriend.

Sounds like a fun little plot and the previews below look pretty much like an Apatow film. It’s supposed to be released on May 30th, 2008.

Enjoy the YouTube version above or visit Yahoo Movies for the high definition versions.